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Limited Submission Funding Opportunity: NEH Summer Stipend

Provost Nomination Requests are Due Monday, August 19; Applications are due September 18, 2024

The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced its annual Summer Stipends fellowship competition for 2024. The NEH deadline for eligible proposal submissions is Wednesday, September 18. The maximum award amount is $8,000 for projects beginning between May 1, 2025 and September 1, 2026.  

The Summer Stipend program “aims to stimulate new research in the humanities and its publication. The program works to accomplish this goal by:

  • Providing small awards to individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both
  • Supporting projects at any stage of development, but especially early-stage research and late-stage writing in which small awards are most effective
  • Funding a wide range of individuals, including independent scholars, community college faculty, and non-teaching staff at universities

Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months.  NEH funds may support recipients’ compensation, travel, and other costs related to the proposed scholarly research.”

ELIGIBILITY
Individual Applicants. An individual who has 1) Not previously held an NEH award in any of its programs for individuals; 2) Does not require the nomination of their institution (see “Faculty Nomination” below); and 3) Is either a U.S. citizen residing domestically or abroad, or a foreign national who has lived in the U.S. (or its jurisdictions) for at least three years prior to the application deadline, are welcome to apply.

Faculty Nomination. If you are tenured or on a tenure track and teach full time at an institution of higher education that is not exempt from nomination, your institution must nominate you to apply for a Summer Stipend. Institutions of higher education in the United States and its jurisdictions may each nominate one faculty member per deadline. Faculty members of any rank, who have not held a previous award for individuals, are eligible for nomination. Self-nominations are not allowed.

Exceptions to the faculty nomination requirement. You may apply without a nomination if you are:

  • non-tenure-track faculty at an institution of higher education
  • a staff member, but not faculty, at an institution of higher education
  • emeritus faculty

For information on applying for the Provost’s NEH Summer Stipend applicant nomination please refer to “Emerson Faculty Nomination Process” below.

EMERSON FACULTY NOMINATION PROCESS
This year, Emerson may nominate one full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty to apply for a Summer Stipend. The Provost serves as the College’s Nominating Official.

On or before Monday, August 19, potential applicants must complete the Application Form for Provost’s Nomination via Google Forms.  Applicants must include a one-paragraph summary of their proposed project for review by the Provost.   

By September 1, after review by the Provost, the nominee will be notified by the Office of Research and Creative Scholarship. The nominee will then have the opportunity to complete their proposals in time for submission to the NEH by its September 18 deadline.   


PROPOSAL SUBMISSION
: Applications to NEH are submitted via Grants.gov directly by the individual. ORCS will assist the nominees with this process. 

FURTHER INFORMATION
On August 21, 2024, NEH staff will host a webinar for applicants offering an overview of the program, describing the review process and application components, and offering tips for writing a strong proposal. A live Q&A will be included. To join the webinar, click here. Closed captioning will be available

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Diana Potter or Eric Asetta.

Emerson awarded three grants from National Endowment for the Arts

Emerson College has been awarded three Grants for Arts Projects awards from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support Emerson Contemporary, ArtsEmerson and HowlRound Theatre Commons. 

Grants for Arts Projects provides funding opportunities to strengthen the nation’s arts and cultural ecosystem. It is the National Endowment for the Arts’ largest grants program for organizations, with grants ranging from $10,000 to $100,000. In July 2023, the NEA received 2,129 eligible applications. Emerson’s three projects are among the 1,135 projects across America totaling more than $37 million that were selected during this second round of Grants for Arts Projects fiscal year 2024 funding.

This is the first time the college has received three awards in the same funding round, and it is the first NEA grant received by Emerson Contemporary.

Leonie Bradbury
Distinguished Curator-in-Residence, Emerson Contemporary

Emerson Contemporary was awarded its grant in the Media Arts category, for the purpose of supporting an exhibition series showcasing underrepresented artists in new media and digital art, and related public programming. The exhibitions will feature both New England and national and international artists, and examine themes such as the climate crisis, loss, collective trauma, and rituals of mourning. Each exhibition will include robust public program activities, intentional educational outreach and community engagement initiatives for Greater Boston.

Ronee Penoi
Interim Executive Director of the Office of the Arts & ArtsEmerson Director of Artistic Programming

ArtsEmerson was awarded its grant in the Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works category for the purpose of supporting the presentation of multidisciplinary works and related activities at ArtsEmerson. It will support the presentation of works by Theater Mitu and Beth Morrison Projects, which disrupt the narrative of the racialized prison system and reimagine our shared future as communal radical action.

Jamie Gahlon
Associate Vice President, Office of the Arts & Director and Co-Founder of HowlRound Theatre Commons

HowlRound Theatre Commons was awarded its grant in the Theater category for the purpose of supporting HowlRound’s Latinx Theatre Commons Carnaval of New Latinx Musicals, which will evolve the canon by developing three to six new works of musical theater by, for, and about Latine communities. The Carnaval will invite Latine and allied decision-makers and scholars to witness, engage with, and become advocates for the featured artists and pieces.

For more information on the projects included in the National Endowment for the Arts grant announcement, visit arts.gov/news.

Faculty Team Awarded NEH Humanities Connections Grant

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded Emerson College a NEH Humanities Connections Planning Grant to develop a new interdisciplinary undergraduate major in climate and sustainability communication.

On April 16, the NEH announced $26.2 million for 238 humanities projects nationwide. These awards will support the preservation of historical collections, humanities exhibitions and documentaries, scholarly research, and curriculum projects. Emerson’s grant fits into the last category. The Humanities Connections program seeks to expand the role of the humanities in undergraduate education by encouraging partnerships between humanities faculty and their counterparts in other areas of study. This year, the Humanities Connections program received 106 applications and made 18 awards totaling $1.7 million.

Emerson received $49,978 to further develop an interdisciplinary, dynamic, and experiential undergraduate major in climate and sustainability communication. Four Emerson faculty representing the Marlboro Institute, the School of Communications and the School of the Arts are overseeing this one-year project which will bring together faculty from across the college to work on curriculum development and experiential learning in relation to communication around climate and sustainability, as well as student focus groups that will convene this fall. The project will culminate in the submission of a new major proposal to the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee next spring.

The four faculty co-project directors are Nejem Raheem, Professor and Chair of the Marketing Communication department, Jon Honea, Associate Professor in the Marlboro Institute, Rituparna Mitra, Assistant Professor and postcolonial scholar in the Marlboro Institute, and Christine Casson, senior writer-in-residence in the department of Writing, Literature and Publishing.

Nejem Raheem
Professor and Chair, Marketing Communication

Jon Honea
Associate Professor, Marlboro Institute and Director of the Honors Program

Rituparna Mitra
Assistant Professor, Marlboro Institute

Christine Casson
Senior Writer-in-Residence, Writing, Literature and Publishing

This award is a significant recognition in the realm of the humanities. The National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency created in 1965, supports research and learning in history, literature, philosophy, and other areas of the humanities by funding selected, peer-reviewed proposals from across the U.S.

This is not the first time Emerson has received an NEH grant. However, it is the College’s first Humanities Connections grant in support of major curriculum development. This award recognizes the connectivity of the humanities and the liberal arts to Emerson’s historic strengths in communications and the arts.

Three Emerson faculty awarded Whiting Travel Fellowships

Three Emerson College faculty were awarded Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation fellowships, funding their travel for research that will contribute to their courses and teaching. The Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation provides travel fellowships to New England university and college professors to study abroad and improve and enhance the quality of their instruction. This year, the foundation received 104 applications and awarded 46 fellowships. Since 2013, the Whiting Foundation has awarded fellowships to 16 Emerson faculty. This year’s Emerson fellows received approximately $7,000 in travel funding each.

Nejem Raheem
Professor and Chair, Marketing Communication

Nejem Raheem is a professor in the department of Marketing Communication. The Whiting Fellowship will support his project “Bringing the Tribunal de las Aguas to New Mexico.” In Spain, he will visit the Tribunal de las Aguas, affiliated irrigation systems, and the Universitat Politecnica in Valencia. In New Mexico he will visit the University of New Mexico, the Taos Pueblo, and the New Mexico State University’s Sustainable Agriculture Center in Alcalde. This project will contribute to the first-year interdisciplinary seminar in Sustainability Communication.

Korbett Matthews
Associate Professor and BFA Program Director, Visual and Media Arts

Korbett Matthews is an Associate Professor and documentary filmmaker in the Department of Visual and Media Arts. As part of his project “A Baltic Poetic Documentary Study” professor Matthews will travel to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to conduct research and screenings at The Eye Filmmuseusm, The Estonian Film Institute, The Latvian Film Center, The Lithuanian Film Center, The Baltic Audiovisual Archival Council and the National Film School of the Latvian Academy of Culture in order to understand the current state of documentary in the region and gain in-depth expertise of the Baltic Poetic movement and how the language of that new wave has helped shaped a new generation of documentary storytellers and artists.

Catherine Nguyen
Assistant Professor, Writing, Literature and Publishing

Catherine Nguyen is an assistant professor in the department of Writing, Literature and Publishing. The Whiting Fellowship will support her project “New Sites of the Vietnamese Diaspora: The Vietnamese in Germany.” She will travel to Germany to explore and learn more about the Vietnamese diaspora in Germany, collect and gather research materials and connect with Vietnamese German cultural producers. This project is part of her new research work as well as part of a new course she is designing called “Creating the Vietnamese Diaspora: Literature, Film, and Art.”

External Funding Opportunities: Spring 2024

The Office of Research & Creative Scholarship would like to share several popular funding sources accepting applications this spring. If you are interested in any of these opportunities, please reach out to the ORCS office.

Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Applications due February 25, 2024
The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts fosters the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. The Graham realizes this vision through making project-based grants to individuals and organizations and producing exhibitions, events, and publications.

NEA Creative Writing Fellowships
Applications due March 13, 2024
The National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships program offers $25,000 grants in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry to published creative writers that enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement. Applications are reviewed for artistic excellence and artistic merit of the submitted manuscript. In 2024, the program is accepting applications for fellowships in poetry. Fellowships in prose will be accepted in March, 2025.

Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship Program
Applications due early April, 2024
The Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship Program is nurturing a new generation of serious and enterprising journalists. This year-long program allows writers early in their careers to pursue projects they otherwise would be unable to research and report. Applicants should have less than 10 years’ experience as professional journalists and must be U.S. citizens. There are three tiers to the program: Fellowships provide up to $35,000 in grant money and expense assistance. Full Fellowships, which require that recipients devote their full-time efforts to their project, provide up to $75,000. Alumni Fund Fellowships provide support for recipients to write one in-depth, major essay on their topic.

Creative Capital
Applications due April 4, 2024
The Creative Capital Foundation welcomes innovative and original new project proposals in visual arts, performing arts, film/moving image, technology, literature, multidisciplinary, and socially engaged forms for its 2024 grant cycle. Creative Capital is one of the only non-profit organizations to offer awards to individual artists through an open application process; therefore, it is very competitive, with less than 1% of applicants receiving awards. Creative Capital provides each funded project with up to $50,000 in direct funding, and career development services valued at $45,000. In recent years, more than 75% of awardees have been artists of color—including Black, Latinx, Asian, and Indigenous artists—of all ages, abilities, and regions across the United States.

National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowships
Applications due April 10, 2024
NEH Fellowships support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources in the humanities. Award amount ranges from $30,000 to $60,000 for a 6-12 month project period. Faculty may not teach during the grant period.

Boston Athenaeum Fellowship
Applications due April 15, 2024
The Boston Athenaeum (next to campus at 10-1/2 Beacon St) offers short-term fellowships to support the use of Athenaeum collections for research, publication, curriculum and program development, or other creative projects. Each fellowship pays a stipend for a four-week residency and includes a year’s membership to the Boston Athenaeum. Scholars, graduate students, independent scholars, teaching faculty, and professionals in the humanities as well as teachers and librarians in secondary public, private, and parochial schools are eligible to apply.

NEH Humanities Initiative at Colleges and Universities
Applications due May 7, 2024
The NEH Humanities Initiative at Colleges & Universities strengthens the teaching and study of the humanities at institutions of higher education by developing new humanities programs, resources (including those in digital format), or courses, or by enhancing existing ones. Projects must be organized around a core topic or set of themes drawn from such areas of study in the humanities as history, philosophy, religion, literature, and composition and writing skills. The project period can be between 1-3 years and the total award is up to $150,000.

Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program
Applications due May 15, 2024
The Arts Writers grant supports writers who are writing about contemporary visual art. Ranging from $15,000 to $50,000 in three categories—articles, books, and short-form writing—these grants support projects addressing both general and specialized art audiences, from short reviews for magazines and newspapers to in-depth scholarly studies. The foundation also supports art writing that engages criticism through interdisciplinary methods or experiments with literary styles. As long as a writer meets the eligibility and publishing requirements, they can apply.

Institute for Humane Studies Grants for Course Buyouts
Rolling Deadline; due at least 6 months before the start of the requested semester.
The Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University provides funding to full-time faculty members from various disciplines at research and teaching institutions for course buyouts and salary support in order to work on their research projects and prepare them for publication.

Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
Rolling Deadline
The Delmas foundation intends to further the humanities along a broad front, supporting projects which address the concerns of the historical studia humanitatis: a humanistic education rooted in the great traditions of the past; the formation of human beings according to cultural, moral, and aesthetic ideals derived from that past; and the ongoing debate over how these ideals may best be conceived and realized. Programs in the following areas are eligible: history; archaeology; literature; languages, both classical and modern; philosophy; ethics; comparative religion; the history, criticism, and theory of the arts; and those aspects of the social sciences which share the content and methods of humanistic disciplines. The Foundation welcomes projects that cross the boundaries between humanistic disciplines and explore the connection between the humanities and other areas of scholarship.

The Laura Bassi Scholarship for Editorial Assistance: Applications Due November 30

The Laura Bassi Scholarship was established by Editing Press in 2018 with the aim of providing editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study, broadly construed, within their disciplines. The scholarships are open to every discipline and are awarded three times per year: December, April, and August. The value of the scholarship is remitted solely through editorial assistance as follows:

Master’s candidates: $750
Doctoral candidates: $2,500
Junior academics: $500

These figures reflect the upper bracket of costs of editorial assistance for master’s theses, doctoral dissertations, and academic journal articles, respectively. All currently enrolled master’s and doctoral candidates are eligible to apply, as are academics in the first five years of full-time employment. There are no institutional, departmental, or national restrictions.

Deadlines

Winter 2023

Deadline: 30 November 2023
Results: 11 December 2023

How to ApplyApplicants are required to submit a completed application form along with their CV using the portal prompted by the ‘Apply’ button below by the relevant deadline.

To help defray the Scholarship’s administrative costs, applicants are subject to a voluntary USD 10.00 fee. All applicants who are unable to pay the application fee are welcome to take advantage of the fee waiver option on the application portal. If you wish to pay the application fee in a non-USD currency, please consult the FAQ below for instructions.

Answers to common questions about the application process are provided in the FAQ section. In order to avoid delays, applicants are encouraged to read the FAQ carefully before writing to us with their questions.

Please do not submit your application material by email, as this would breach our impartiality rules and potentially invalidate your application. If you wish to update your application material, please upload your documents afresh using the same email address as your initial submission. Your dossier will then update automatically. Please also note that your application documents need to be uploaded together rather than separately.

Grants for Creative Individuals (Massachusetts Cultural Council): Application Open Through December 11, 2023

Taking the place of long-running programs such as the Artist Fellowship, Cultural Sector Recovery Program, and Traditional Arts Apprenticeships, the Grants for Creative Individuals program seeks to “equitably advance creativity throughout the Commonwealth with unrestricted grants to individuals who demonstrate achievement of creative expression and commitment to their artistic/cultural practice.”

Eligible applicants can apply for unrestricted grants of $5,000, which will be awarded to “artist[s], culture bearer[s], or creative practitioner[s] active in any artistic/creative discipline… [who] demonstrate achievement of creative expression and commitment to their artistic/cultural practice.”

Who Can Apply

MCC encourages you to apply if you are:

An artist, culture bearer, or creative practitioner active in any artistic/creative discipline. For this program, the definition of “artist/culture bearer/creative practitioner” includes individuals whose creative expression is based in: community-based arts, crafts, dance, design, digital, film/video, folk/world/traditional arts, native/indigenous arts, literature, music, performance, photography, theater, and visual arts.

If you have any questions about whether your work is eligible for this grant, contact the MCC.

AND you meet all the following requirements:

  • You are 18 years of age or older.
  • You are a full-year resident of Massachusetts for calendar year 2023 AND when grants are awarded in Spring 2024. This means you maintain your “legal residence” in Massachusetts, and you meet the definition of a “full-year resident”. Both terms are defined in the Massachusetts tax code.
  • You are not currently enrolled at a college or university as a full-time undergraduate student or as a graduate student in the arts.
  • You did not receive a Cultural Sector Recovery Grant, Artist Fellowship grant, or a Traditional Arts Apprenticeship grant over $2,000 in 2021, 2022, or 2023.
  • You are not a governor-appointed Mass Cultural Council member. Mass Cultural Council staff and family are likewise ineligible to apply.

Additional Information

As this award is made directly to the individual, submission through Emerson College and coordination with ORCS is not required.

Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowships for Higher Education of Present and Prospective Teachers- Applications Due January 5, 2024

The Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation recently issued its 2024 call for applications for Fellowships of Higher Education of Present and Prospective Teachers

The primary purpose of the fellowship is to enable teachers (with an emphasis on present teachers at the college or university level) to study abroad or at some location other than that with which they are most closely associated. The aim is to stimulate and broaden the minds of teachers so as to improve and enhance the quality of their instruction.

Grants are primarily for travel and related expenses (salary, scholarships, and equipment are not allowable on these grants). In 2023, the average award was $6,105.

If you intend to apply, please complete and submit an ORCS Pre-Approval Request no later than Friday, December 8 (instructions for using the pre-approval form can be found here). The final application documents must be delivered to ORCS at least three business days before the sponsor deadline of January 5, 2024.

Forms and templates for the program can be downloaded here. The application consists of the following:

  1. Project Description (three pages maximum)
  2. Curriculum Vitae showing the application to be a university or college teacher
  3. Detailed budget indicating the estimated travel expense to be incurred in carrying out the project
  4. Completed Candidate Information Form (see attached document)
  5. Two letters of recommendation from fellow faculty members or professors. One of these must be from your department chair The supporting letters must be on official letterhead.

ORCS will officially submit all proposals for Whiting fellowships on behalf of the applicants and the College. All resulting awards will be made to the College, which manages the funds on behalf of the awardees.

Award winners will be notified by email on Monday, April 8, 2024. Grants typically do not exceed $6,000 and may begin as early as the Summer of 2024. Projects must be completed no later than May 31, 2026. Applications received after January 5, 2024 will not be considered by the Foundation.

If you have any questions about this opportunity or the application process, please contact Eric Asetta or Diana Potter.

The M. C. Lang Fellowship in Book History, Bibliography, and Humanities Teaching with Historical Sources (Application Open through November 17, 2023)

The following fellowship opportunity was forwarded to ORCS from our friends in Iwasaki Library. We are sharing it with faculty for whom it may be of interest. 

If you are interested in applying, or have any questions, please contact eric_asetta@emerson.edu.

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Rare Book School (RBS) at the University of Virginia Charlottesville is now offering an exciting fellowship opportunity for those teaching undergraduates about book history: the M. C. Lang Fellowship in Book History, Bibliography, and Humanities Teaching with Historical Sources

The Lang Fellowship is a two-year program designed to animate humanities teaching and equip educators at liberal arts colleges and small universities in the United States to enlarge their students’ historical sensibilities through bibliographically informed instruction with original historical sources. The deadline to apply is Friday, 17 November 2023 at 11:59 p.m. ET.


The fellowship includes:

  • tuition waivers for two RBS courses (H-165. Book History, Bibliography, and Humanities Teaching, and a second RBS course), held in the summer months
  • an annual stipend of $1,500 for travel, housing, course books, and other costs related to the Fellow’s RBS course attendance
  • and the opportunity to apply for matching funds of up to $1,000 each year of the fellowship to further the Fellow’s efforts to foster book-historical humanities teaching at their home institution 

RBS will be hosting an informational Zoom session about the program on Wednesday, 25 October at 7 p.m. ET. You may register to attend by filling in this form. The session will be recorded and shared if you miss the live stream. 

For more information about program details, the application process, and eligibility requirements, review the attached brochure, or please visit: https://rarebookschool.org/admissions-awards/fellowships/lang/

Inquiries about the M. C. Lang Fellowship can be directed to rbs_lang@virginia.edu.

About Rare Book School

Rare Book School (RBS) is an independent, non-profit, and tax-exempt institute supporting the study of the history of books and printing and related subjects, governed by its own board of directors. Founded in 1983, it moved to its present home at the University of Virginia in 1992.

RBS is committed to supporting diversity and to advancing the scholarship of persons of every race, gender, sexual orientation, creed, and socio-economic background, and to enhancing the diversity of the professions and academic disciplines it represents. 
RBS is also currently accepting applications for its scholarships (due 1 November) and Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography: Junior Fellows Program (due 17 November).

Artist Residency Opportunities: October-November 2023

The following funders have announced application cycles for artist residency programs and other opportunities. ORCS has compiled this list for faculty in School of the Arts who may have in an interest in such programs. Most of these residencies take place in the summer or winter break, or have flexible start dates.

These opportunities are primarily individual, direct-to-applicant awards. ORCS may be able to provide some application assistance, pending staff availability. Contact orcs@emerson.edu for more details.

Funder

Summary

Application Due Date

The Buinho Residency program is designed for individuals hailing from diverse creative and research backgrounds. Running 2 weeks – 2 months, we empower our residents to delve into an array of cutting-edge technologies, including 3D Printing, Lasercut, CNC, and more.

October 27, 2023

Based in Buenos Aires, Exploration Residencies provide accompaniment, research resources and local contacts for carrying out projects. All of our residents receive tutoring and mentoring, accompaniment and work critiques from the ´ace team and specialized professionals. This program is aimed at professional and emerging artists from any discipline who want to work on visual, sound or performance art research, or who wish to have a space for reflection to create, investigate or write.b 4-8 weeks.

October 31, 2023

We offer solo residencies of 1-3 weeks in a well-appointed cottage in deep woods above Hammersley Inlet on Puget Sound. The cottage is five miles from Shelton, a small logging town. The place is good accommodation for writers, visual artists, academics, playwrights and artists in other fields. 

November 1, 2023

The Studios is a unique residency housed in MASS MoCA – one of the world’s largest contemporary art museums. The Studios residency hosts artist and writers within the museum’s factory campus and is surrounded by the beautiful Berkshire Mountains. Operated by MASS MoCA’s Assets for Artists program, the residency runs year-round and hosts up to 10 artists at a time. Artists of any nationality can apply for stays of 2-8 weeks.

November 8, 2023

Located in the heart of Savannah’s Starland District at Sulfur Studios, the ON::VIEW Artist Residency provides a free, high visibility studio space for artists in all media to complete a new project, to continue an in-progress endeavor, or to conduct research exploring conceptual, material, performative, and social practices. 

December 1, 2023

Chulitna Lodge Wilderness Retreat seeks to provide the time, space, clarity and facilities for all forms of creative professionals or enthusiastic hobbyists to make and meditate. From visual artists, to writers, to scientific researchers, music, dance and more we encourage all to apply for our various programs. 1-6 weeks.

December 31, 2023

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